Computer & Data Safety

Ensuring you don’t lose your computer data is key to your business survival and often to your private life too. We have been working with a local company, that’s kept our computers running and safe at all times. Paul from Dolphin Upgrades has delivered great support – and he can talk about computers in a way everyone can understand.

For a reliable, easy and very affordable virtual back-up of your PC, as Paul about Lifedrive.

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Useful links & resources for getting organised

What learning and personality type are you?
If you are interested in finding out, check out the VARK guide to learning styles or the free personality tests by PeopleMaps.

How to improve your skills and prove that you are computer literate?
The European Computer Driving Licence® (ECDL) is an internationally recognized qualification which enables people to demonstrate their competence in computer skills. For more information visit the ECDL website.

Useful computer software for free
Why spend money if you can have it for free? There is a lot of freeware on the internet. Not everything is well developed and useful and some software might even be harmful however here is some software you might find useful. But please note that we cannot take any responsibility for those programs and downloading is done at your own risk.

Protecting your PC from Spyware with Spybot
Keeping your computer clean with CCleaner
Create PDF documents on the fly and for free with CutePDF

Support and information for small businesses and people working from home
There is a handful of interesting websites out there with a lot of useful information and links. Have a look at

Health & Safety

Health and safety at our workplaces is not only about rules, regulations and at times red tape. It is also about paying attention to the basics of working at a desk. The British Chiropractic Association has some informative leaflets on their website such as advice for using office chairs, computers and laptops.

To see how you should be sitting at your desk have a look here.
And for more tips on healthy computing visit the really excellent Healthy Computing website.

A comprehensive leaflet on Health & Safety by the government can be found here.

Unwanted mail and phonecalls

Why waste time with unwanted marketing phonecalls or fill your recycling bin with unwanted junk-mail? Did you know that there is a central body that removes you from mailing, faxing and calling lists of direct marketeers?
Check out the Mailing Preference Service (MPS), the Fax Preference Service (FPS) and the Telephone Preference Service (TPS). The service is absolutely free and much quicker and easier than calling every single credit card company and ask to be removed from their mailing list. You can register online or call 0207 291 33 10